Living in the town can get easily discouraging at times.
There’s a lot of noise and traffic that always overwhelms my senses… No matter where I go in a metropolitan city, I feel like I’m always surrounded by other people and there is no escape.
For someone with chronic anxiety like myself, living in the town can get overwhelming easily hastily. There was always a lot of shouting and screaming too. At one point I was living next to a couple who fought all of the time with long bouts of screaming and wailing coming from their unit. I finally decided I had enough when the cops were called because he was threatening to shoot her and himself in a psychotic rage. It was a horrifying situation and I kept worrying bullets would fly through the wall and kill me in my apartment. I left the town a week later to live with my cousin in the countryside. I enjoyed it so much that I vowed to eventually live in a rural environment someday. Unfortunately, I ended up in suburbia when I got married and decided to create a family. We have a good apartment with a good heating and cooling system, however I still crave the countryside. I go out hiking when uneven temperatures aren’t too hot, and it’s always a nice experience. I can get away from the air conditioned apartment for a little while to clear my head. I don’t mind all of the heat outside if there’s a good breeze to counteract everything. Then I can return apartment and cool off with the a/c.